The conference has two panel sessions
Panel 1: EU funding panel – advice and tips on obtaining EU funding from grant holders, proposal evaluators, and current EU project co-ordinators.
- Professor Bob Young, EU project co-ordinator
- Dr Fatima Dargam, EU proposal evaluator
- Dr Jason Papathanasiou, EU proposal evaluator
- Dr Jorge Hernandez, EU project co-ordinator
- Professor Shaofeng Liu, H2020 proposal evaluator
Panel 2: Journal editors’ panel – advice and tips on how to publish in journals from editors.
- Dr Hing Kai Chan, Editor, Industrial Management and Data Systems (2014 impact factor: 1.226)
- Professor Pascale Zarate, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Decision Support System Technology (ISSN: 1941-6296, EISSN: 1941-630X)
- Professor Mike Hart, joint Editor-in-Chief, Journal of information, Knowledge and Management (IJIKM)
- Professor Marc Kilgour, Associate Editor for Journal of GDN
- Dr Jason Papathanasiou – Guest Editor for IJDSST SI in relation to ICDSST 2016
- Professor Shaofeng Liu – Senior Editor for Cogent Business & management, Guest Editor for IM&DS SI in relation to ICDSST 2016